Collaborative work with the Cheng lab at Washington University-St Louis was just published in eLife!  “Polyunsaturated fatty acids inhibit a pentameric ligand-gated ion channel through one of two binding sites” used photolabeling and Mark’s coarse-grained MD simulations to identify two binding sites for polyunsaturated fatty acids (DHA), and functional studies with modifications to determine which site is responsible for the effects of DHA. This paper also provided another test of the method for lipid affinities from density distributions that we published here.

Congratulations, all!